Italeri have stepped up to the plate in the last two years for those of us who like World War Two. Their latest offering is World War Two US Army troops. This after their German Elite infantry, Russian infantry, German Pak 40 with crew and Russian 76.2 cm ATGs.
Later this year Italeri are doing American Army in winter, an Italian heavy ATG, and a multinational AT set.
This set is ever so slightly larger than the other existing WWII American Army troops. In my opinion, they are just within the acceptable size for WWII American Army troops.
The bazooka guy is moving and not as interesting as a bazooka guy shooting, but I hope the AT set will have a firing bazooka team. The radio guy is a good one, more interesting than one just walking around. The radio and particularly the battery was heavy.
If you click on the picture you can see how incredibly detailed these figures are, look at the sling. This is a one piece figure. Awesome. The set has more kneeling figures than I like and they are a bit larger than I like, maybe one millimeter too tall, and just a bit chunky. I like the plastic color, it should be the plastic color for all US Army WWII troops. I seldom paint troops and so plastic color is important to me. I hope the AT set and the American winter set will be good and fill some of the gaps in this set. They need more shooting figures and more standing. I am going to buy a lot of these.
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